Spencer Cox

It is vital, with only a few days remaining before the expiration of the 3-year-old moratorium on special multiple and discriminatory taxes on the Internet, that we extend it; that we not let a lapse occur. Because, honestly, my…

Tomorrow, Friday, October 12, America's schoolchildren, all of the schools across the country, are invited to join in delivering simultaneously the Pledge of Allegiance. This is a nationwide synchronized Pledge of Allegiance that will take…

the magnitude of this tragedy is still revealing itself. The bombings are over, but the extent of the damage, the number of people killed, is still partially obscured to us. The death toll in a single day may eclipse the entire toll from…

Mr. Chairman, in fact, the purpose of this legislation is to make sure that we do not have runaway health care costs and that we have more people insured. The legislation states, and it is worth pointing out, because we have heard…

I yield myself 20 seconds to correct the gross, egregious and ought to be subject to punitive damages if we have the kinds of standards we are talking about here in the Congress misstatements of what this amendment is all about. Punitive…

I yield myself 30 seconds for the purpose of correcting the record because the gentleman from Michigan has just stated several things that are factually in error. First, he said that this amendment would apply to health plans, that it…

I oppose the amendment. The effect of this amendment is to abrogate our post-World War II agreement with Japan on reparations to U.S. citizens injured by Japan during World War II. It would bar the Justice Department and the State…

today we will repeal the death tax. We will send it to the President for the third time, but this time to a President who will sign it. We hear arguments about why punitive confiscatory taxes on the after- tax life savings of hard-working…

Higher tax rates do not produce jobs. Lower tax rates do. High tax rates do not help single moms. Lower tax rates do. High tax rates do not help our kids and our families. Lower tax rates do. Mr. Speaker, today, for the first time in 20…

This resolution does nothing more, nothing less than it purports to do, which is to put before the Congress a report which we ought by rights to have seen on October 19, and I think that on that we should all agree.

I yield myself 1 minute and simply agree with the essential points that have been made on both sides here this evening. That is, first, that the crisis for consumers and small businesses alike in Southern California, in particular in San…

I want to join with this distinguished group of Members on both sides of the aisle in paying tribute to my friend and our colleague, this great national leader from Southern California, Ron Packard. There are many to tell about a man whose…

I have heard here an attempt to make this debate one about the super rich instead of the family next door; to make it about only 2 percent of the super rich instead of half of the American population; to make it partisan, when in fact it…

The physicians who support this bill do so for one reason, they wish to negotiate with HMOs and other managed care organizations in order to improve the quality of the patient care. They do not seek this legislation in order to force other…

I too am pleased to rise in strong support of this resolution which will present the Congressional Gold Medal to the three astronauts who flew in the historic 1969 Apollo 11 mission. I want to congratulate the gentleman from California…

I agree with essentially all of the arguments that were advanced by the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey) and the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Dingell) just now in opposition to this bill because everything that they said makes…

We are all agreed on both sides of the aisle and on all sides of this question that the Government should not regulate the content of speech of noncommercial broadcasters and that the Government should not discriminate against some…

when I first introduced legislation to repeal the death tax in 1993, the Democratic leader was seeking to increase death taxes. But slowly but surely over four congresses, we have put together a consensus of Democrats and Republicans in…

it has been instructive to listen to the debate, because we are coming together, Democrats and Republicans, to appreciate that the death tax is unfair. It is unfair, because it is a double tax on the aftertax lifesavings of an individual…

let us remind ourselves how we got here. When, in 1993, I introduced the first bill in the history of the income tax to repeal the death tax, we had just a few sponsors. By the 106th Congress, I had over 200 sponsors on my legislation to…

I rise today to offer the Rogan amendment that will facilitate effective traffic mitigation at reasonable cost for the citizens of South Pasadena and the surrounding communities of Pasadena, Altadena, La Canada, and East Los Angeles. The…

Amendment offered by Mr. Cox: Page 54, after line 2, insert the following: Sec. 341. None of the funds in this Act shall be used for the planning, development, or construction of California State Route 710 freeway extension project through…

Just a few weeks ago, Mr. Chairman, the Los Angeles Times published an article with the lead, ``Warning to American Taxpayers: Without knowing it, you may soon take on responsibility for what could be billions of dollars in liability…

we must keep our focus on the narrow purpose of this amendment, which is to keep Congress in control over any decision whether the U.S. taxpayer should be put on the hook for a multi-billion dollar liability for nuclear accidents in North…

I came to Congress 12 years ago, having already spent 2 years working as a lawyer for President Reagan in the White House trying to overhaul our badly broken budget process. President Reagan in 1986 appointed a White House working group on…